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The study will focus on patients newly diagnosed with Lyme disease as well as patients diagnosed with both Lyme and a parasite that causes the disease babesiosis.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) announced millions of dollars in federal funding for research into tick-borne diseases. Cases have more than doubled in the last 10 years across the Northeast.

8:29 With the COVID pandemic coming under control, lawmakers in the Hudson Valley and other Lyme disease hotspots hope attention, and money, return to tick-borne disease education and research. It seems ticks were out in greater force in the spring than in recent history. “The early data from our area in the Hudson Valley suggests that, at least for black-legged ticks, this is a greater than normal year,” says Ostfeld. “An average year is dangerous, and this is even more dangerous in 2021...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for increased funding for tick-borne illness research.

Wed, 04/14/2021 - 12:00pm Paula Jackson Jones with Senator Susan Collins in Washington, D.C. Courtesy photo The second annual Fly-In, hosted by Center for Lyme Action, was held on Wednesday, Feb. 24, entirely via Zoom. Advocates from around the country attended more than 200 meetings with senators, members of Congress, and their staff. Many staffers commented positively on the day and highlighted how it allowed constituents to access a platform in which they could voice their stories ...

Servicemembers are particularly at risk for Lyme disease; they live, work, and play on bases where Lyme is rampant. Some 75 percent of all U.S. military installations are located in states where 99 percent of the approximately 500,000 tickborne disease,